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- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 equals 12345678987654321
- Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and
laser printers all have in common? A. All invented by women.
- Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of
the year? A. Father's Day
- Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,
or purple.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
- Turtles can breathe through their butts
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the
morning.
- A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
- Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
- Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
- It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
- In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark
guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
- Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
- The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
- On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her
daughter Judy is 15.
- The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
- Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan; Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars
in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
- Cat's urine glows under a black light.
- Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
- Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the
New World.
- When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc.,
how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a two-way
mirror?? Just conduct this simple test: Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a
GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES
the image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a two-way mirror
- If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white
- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet
- On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
- Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor
of his brother.
- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
- One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they
saw it as competition.
- If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a
neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served
in first-class.
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